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Product Details

  • Audio CD (June 27, 2006)
  • Original Release Date: June 27, 2006
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: HYENA Records
  • ASIN: B000FPYNVC
  • In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #137,750 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

 
1. The Third Rail
2. Go To Hell Mr. Bush
3. Syncopate The Taint
4. Fry His Ass
5. Don’t Wanna
6. Song For Bad
7. Taiming The Shrew
8. Irritaint
9. Summer Pudding
10. Daddy Won’t Taint Bye Bye

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"...one of this year's best jazz CDs that shines from start to finish"


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Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet’s first ever studio album Husky on HYENA Records is vital and alive, bursting with fresh vision in arrangement, composition, improvisation, rhythm and recording. It's an album with seemingly multiple layers that are revealed slowly and surely with repeated listens. Its rhythmic vocabularies often draw from hip-hop and funk, which is part and parcel of SST7's vernacular, as equally called upon as the harmonic languages of Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Count Basie and John Coltrane. With a five-front horn line, SST7 create a gigantic sound. And yet they don't shy away from nimble, dancing harmonies that can be as refined and delicate one moment as they are muscular and bruising the next.

Husky's opening cut, "The Third Rail," emerges like a locomotive in the distance, faint horns growing ever louder as it rumbles forward. Rather unexpectedly, however, it turns elegant, managing to tread the line between lithe swing and grinding, gutbucket thump. The politically charged, "Go To Hell Mr. Bush," is a window into the band's psyche because the music seemingly declares that creativity in the face of conservatism is the best anecdote. "Syncopate The Taint" explodes in twisted fragments of brass. "Fry His Ass" has a rock steady groove that slowly and hypnotically uncoils. Skerik's tenor saxophone floats along mysteriously. Hip-hop influences like J. Dilla and Questlove can be heard here, while a Wurlitzer winds in and out with subtle shadings. "Irritaint" is a showstopper with New Orleans' brass band funk in its DNA. It doesn't take much imagination to envision Big Easy revelers dancing all night to this one. By the time "Summer Pudding" hits, SST7 are blowing the roof off. With its booming melody, big energy and insistent rhythm perhaps there's a new anthem waiting in the wings for summer 2006.


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5.0 out of 5 stars some of the most exciting new jazz out there, September 11, 2006
A band that could only come out of the Seattle scene, SSTS (not to be confused with STS9) has some of the most unique instrumentation out there as well as the most diverse sound. This album ranges from MMW-ish jazz jams with wurlitzer to the inspiringly named "Go to Hell, Mr. Bush", tunes that somehow mix dixie, jazz, funk, trombones impersonating a diesel horn, Debussy-flute-riffs, into some of the most complex, entertaining, and definitely not boring music out there.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Future Jazz, January 21, 2008
Here it is!!.. The first coherent statement of future jazz! I am an old fart - a fan of Mingus, Miles and Kirk - and this intrigues and excites me! I just saw Skerik in a trio setting in New Orleans a few days ago and it was brilliant! This album is even better. Do Monk and Kirk make you chuckle? If so, tou will Love this.
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5.0 out of 5 stars fun and going strong, December 4, 2008
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As a casual jazz listener who doesn't know a damn thing about the genre, this album caught me off guard. Already a huge fan of Critters, at first I thought this album was an incoherent medley of two ends. Skerik's angry sax dissonance creeping over somewhat cheerful, smoothed-out rhymes.

And I thought, damn, that MP3 download option makes for some spontaneous purchases turning to regret. But then on the fourth listen both ends melded, synthesized, and fused. BAM! In the end, I'm humming parts of it at the grocery store. This is a beautiful album from start to finish, woven together with many references, much energy, and a restraint that keeps you coming back for more. And yes, your body may want to dance to at least one tune on the album.

For $8.99 the MP3 album is a bargain and the recording quality is perfect on normal speakers.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Dirty, funky
Skerik's name is atop this set of dirty, funky jazz. He doesn't write any of the songs (except for getting part-credit for a jam at the end). Read more
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